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Last day for 2017. But it’s the middle of the ‘Seven Days of Danger’ and the road carnage continues despite an all out effort of Thailand’s police to stem the flow. Not surprisingly, drunk-driving is still the leading cause of deaths on our roads. PLEASE be safe tonight, make arrangements ahead of time for your safe return home after celebrations. We look forward to seeing you again tomorrow for the start of 2018. Let’s see what’s in the news for the final day of 2017… More Facebook pics of Yingluck in London surfacing In what’s turning out to be a bit of a UK travel blog, more pictures are surfacing, said to be of former PM and fugitive Yingluck Shinawatra strolling around London shopping. Facebook page ‘secret100million’ posted more photos showing a woman who looks like Yingluck and a boy, who resembles Yingluck’s 15 year old son Supasek in a shopping mall. (Looks like Facebook has been able to do something … [Read more...] about SUNDAY MORNING NEWS BRIEFING

PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Actor Mickey Rooney, brash star of 1930s and ’40s, dies at 93 Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Actor Mickey Rooney, who became the United States’ biggest movie star while still a brash teenager in the 1930s and later a versatile character actor in a career that spanned 10 decades, died on Sunday, friends and entertainment media said. He was 93. Rooney, who developed a reputation as a hard-partying, off-screen brat in his heyday and married eight times, died after a long illness, the TMZ celebrity website said. Show business website Variety also reported his death. TMZ and Variety did not give a cause of death or say where Rooney died. A spokesman was not immediately available for comment. “He was undoubtedly the most talented actor that ever lived. There was nothing he couldn’t do,” actress Margaret O’Brien said in a statement. She said she … [Read more...] about Phuket Gazette World News: Actor Mickey Rooney dies at 93

PHOTO: A Province-wide drama unfolding in Nakhon Si Thammarat. Patong wakes up this morning to start mopping up the heavy flood waters from last night. Heavy rain pelted Phuket’s party town, and other parts of the island, from around 10pm for four hours. Yesterday morning Patong also had heavy floods leading to two electricity poles along the Patong – Karon cliff road to collapse on the road causing peak hour mayhem. Patong Tunnel latest, blah, blah… Speaking of Patong, the much-discussed Patong Tunnel seems to have inched a step closer to reality after Patong’s Mayor confirmed that the Environmental Impact Assessment has been completed and is being considered by the project’s planning committee before the project gets sent to the Thai Cabinet for a final decision. The tunnel would run 1.85 kilometres under Narkkerd Mountain and will mostly funded by private investors who will charge a toll on the new roads. The budget for the tunnel and fly-overs is … [Read more...] about FRIDAY NEWS BRIEFING

Shares of Twitter fell after it was reported that its chief operating officer may leave the company for Social Finance, an online lending startup. Anthony Noto was reported to be in talks with SoFi to join the firm as its CEO. Twitter has suffered from a wave of management changes as it struggles to bring value to shareholders. View Twitter’s current stock price moves here. Shares of Twitter dipped on Monday after it was reported that Twitter’s chief operating officer, Anthony Noto, may leave the company for an offer to become the CEO of Social Finance, or SoFi, an online lending company. Noto has not yet accepted the offer, though he is likely to make a decision in the coming days, the Wall Street Journal reported. The San Francisco-based startup has been looking for a new chief executive after its former CEO, Mike Cagney, left in September, following an … [Read more...] about Twitter slides after news that SoFi may poach its operations chief

Shares of Twitter fell after it was reported that its chief operating officer may leave the company for Social Finance, an online lending startup. Anthony Noto was reported to be in talks with SoFi to join the firm as its CEO. Twitter has suffered from a wave of management changes as it struggles to bring value to shareholders. View Twitter’s current stock price moves here. Shares of Twitter dipped on Monday after it was reported that Twitter’s chief operating officer, Anthony Noto, may leave the company for an offer to become the CEO of Social Finance, or SoFi, an online lending company. Noto has not yet accepted the offer, though he is likely to make a decision in the coming days, the Wall Street Journal reported. The San Francisco-based startup has been looking for a new chief executive after its former CEO, Mike Cagney, left in September, following an … [Read more...] about Twitter slides after news that SoFi may poach its operations chief